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The day the music died.

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Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and J.P. Richardson's 4-week tour of the midwest, played the Surf Ballroom in Clearlake, Iowa.
Although February 2 was originally to be a night off following 10 straight shows, agent Irvin Feld and General Artists Corporation added a performance date, which cost the Surf Ballroom $319.

After the show, on a cold winter's night a small private plane took off from Clear Lake, Iowa bound for Fargo, N.D.
It never made its destination. Click here for the true story and pictures.
 
I still remember watching American Banstand which was on daily and hearing them repeating over and over about the crash. Dancers were even seen crying.
 
Sam, read your excellent summary of the events in the hylitradio.com email today. I always thought the Waylon Jennings & Dion stories were powerful. Saw Waylon tell it on tv many years later & you could see how his remarksstill bothered him; heard Dion tell the mortgage story to Harvey Holiday also with great emotion.

Do you know who/when the news broke on Wibbage, and did Hy or anyone else do an extended tribute on the air? Not sure if back then they were allowed to do the kinds of tributes that happened after Elvis & John Lennon died, basically dropping regular programming for long tributes.
 
Did not hear any urban station mention anything on it...RNB should of with their older playlist and DAS also. I know R1 properties said nothing, I monitored many of their oldies stations on line just to see if they would...I know when MJ and Teddy passed, MMR and RFF acknowledged it and other Rockers as well..why nothing with the urban formatted and minority owned stations on the greatest performers ever, its always the same one-sided story when this situation comes up....I know the reason, but just curious about other theories anyone has...
 
John1 said:
Sam, read your excellent summary of the events in the hylitradio.com email today. I always thought the Waylon Jennings & Dion stories were powerful. Saw Waylon tell it on tv many years later & you could see how his remarksstill bothered him; heard Dion tell the mortgage story to Harvey Holiday also with great emotion.

Do you know who/when the news broke on Wibbage, and did Hy or anyone else do an extended tribute on the air? Not sure if back then they were allowed to do the kinds of tributes that happened after Elvis & John Lennon died, basically dropping regular programming for long tributes.
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Hy told me the story many times. When he heard, he was in shock. It happened to fast and was so unexpected that WIBG just continued with regular programming in a grin and bear it type of emotion. They were just all overwhelmed, like everybody else. Rock & Roll up until that time just seemed immortal or impenetrable.
 
oasisrulz said:
Did not hear any urban station mention anything on it...RNB should of with their older playlist and DAS also. I know R1 properties said nothing, I monitored many of their oldies stations on line just to see if they would...I know when MJ and Teddy passed, MMR and RFF acknowledged it and other Rockers as well..why nothing with the urban formatted and minority owned stations on the greatest performers ever, its always the same one-sided story when this situation comes up....I know the reason, but just curious about other theories anyone has...
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How about demographics? There's no comparison to reporting the announcement of a artist's death today to commemorating the anniversary of an event 51 years ago. Last year there was more made of the 'day the music died' being the 50th anniversary, especially on Sirius, where Cousin Brucie did a remote from the ballroom site in Iowa. Did MMR or RFF, or even MGK or OGL mention this yesterday? Probably not - it may tie to the roots of their music but is before the era of their playlists. If anybody mentioned this here it would have been WVLT or WHAT. I would imagine back in 1959 WHAT & WDAS reported it as Buddy Holly appeared on the r&b charts then. I believe most urban stations would report the deaths of 'white celebrities' if they were people their audience related to - actors, crossover singers, etc.

On March 5th, try 'monitoring' every country station and find tributes to Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins & Cowboy Copas, the country equivalent on the 3 stars in a plane crash story. A few classic country stations that go back before 1970 will do tributes, but not contemporary ones, even though Patsy Cline is the model for all contemp. country female artists. It just happened too long ago and isn't relevant to today's programming. To be honest, back in the '60's, if every Dec. 15th WIBG had paid tribute to Glenn Miller, the day his plane was lost, I would have turned it off, even though he was influential in the development of popular music.

(Yes, I've read this poster's theories for 10+ years under various names on these boards & I know his agenda, but I wanted to say there is more to everything in life than just being a 'racial' issue - in radio, appealing to your audience demographics means everything and giving possible reason to tune away is avoided, even though I'd personally welcome more variety & specials & tributes, but this is a hard, cold business first!)
 
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